On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Stephen Wellington < wellingtonsteve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You probably want something like this: > > SELECT * FROM chico as c, harpo as h WHERE c.operator = "Bill" OR > c.operator = > "Jessica" OR h.operator = "Bill" OR h.operator ="Jessica" > > However if those tables really are identical I would suggest having a > good look at your > database design to see if it can be normalised or something... > > Stephen Wellington > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Mike Sullivan <mjsulliv@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello all. I'm using PHP to build a query for a database that consists > of > > multiple tables, all with identical attribues. A typical syntax try > looks > > like this: SELECT * FROM chico, harpo WHERE operator = "Bill" OR > operator = > > "Jessica" > > > > MySQL responds with this: Couldn't execute query.Column 'operator' in > where > > clause is ambiguous > > > > I was hoping that since the tables are identical all I would need to do > is > > list the attribute values not have to append them to the table names. Is > > there any way to do this? Perhaps with a setting in MySQL or a different > > syntax (JOIN, UNION, ...)? If not are there available some canned code > > snippets that build these types of strings from values passed in the > $_POST > > array. Thanks for any insights on this. --- Mike > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > if the structures and fields are truly the same you can UNION the queries select * from chico where operator in('Jessica','William') union select * from harpo where operator in('Jessica','William') But as suggested, if they are truly similar, the db needs to be looked for design -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
